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Hey Chicagoans! There are some real important canals in the Chicago area, especially the ones connecting it to the Mississippi (indirectly). Is there anything l

• pfdietz 2y ago
  This is reminding me of the somewhat epic journey that was taken in 2013 to deliver a giant muon storage ring magnet to Fermilab from Brookhaven (on Long Island). It couldn't be tilted by more than a small angle anywhere in the journey, which was done by barge down the east coast, around Florida, up the eastern part of the Gulf, then via various rivers and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Canal, ultimately near Fermilab, where it was finally trucked in, very slowly, on a massive wheeled carrier. https://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/bigmove/ https://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/bigmove/